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From: jackh@zehntel.UUCP (jack hagerty)
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Subject: Re: First Color Films
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Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 18:22:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 18 18:22:10 1985
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> 
> Disney ... also developed
> a technique of using multiple layers of cels (celluloid sheets)
> held in a special frame at different levels from the camera
> to get the illusion of depth. He won an Academy Award for this
> in about 1934 for a short titled (I think),"Tulips and Windmills".
> 

The technique is called the multiplane camera. Yes, he did get the
academy award for developing it, but it was in 1936. The title of
the short was "The Old Mill."  It was used as a training exercise
for his production people before they embarked on "Snow White."

> 
>                    The first color animated picture was called
> (again I believe), "The Ten Commandments", and was done in the
> mid-twenties. The images were actually painted directly on the
> nitrate film base. It looked like oil painting. I do not know
> if any copies of this still exist.


I can see how this would produce a colored original, but how would
the distribution prints be made?

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